She had no pleasures, she incurred no expenses; and was quite alive to the fact that as Aylmer Park required a regiment of lazy, gormandizing servants to maintain its position in the county, the Aylmers themselves should not be lazy, and should not gormandize.

I would gormandize on bedrooms, -- like Cromwell resting in a different one every night, -- and the empty ones filling with forlornest of females, provided one need not do the honors at their table in the morning and hear how they have slept.